How to Travel to the Removed Portal Locations in Patch 8.1.5

With the removal of several portals in Patch 8.1.5, you may be wondering how to get back to these old-world locations if you are interested in farming old content for mounts, pets, and more. We've updated our transportation guide for 8.1.5 with all the portal changes, and in this article, we're highlighting how to reach areas by removed portals and why they're still worth visiting!

To recap, with the addition of the Portal Rooms in Stormwind and Orgrimmar, some portals in old cities to interesting locations have been removed:

Caverns of Time, Kalimdor

Dalaran Crater, Eastern Kingdoms

Hellfire Peninsula, Outland

Karazhan, Eastern Kingdoms

Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Pandaria

Wyrmrest Temple, Dragonblight

You can read Blizzard's reasoning for removing the portals here, and our transportation guide for details on all teleportation items in the game, flight paths, portals, Hearthstones, and more.

Caverns of Time, Kalimdor

Why was this portal useful? This portal in Kalimdor was located next to many notable dungeons and raids in the southern part of the continent. While there are some nearby portals, a little bit of travel time is now added in 8.1.5. The Caverns of Time portal is close to:

Piccolo Silitide, a wild battle pet that only spawns during Sandstorms in Tanaris

How to get to Caverns of Time without the portal:

The Uldum portal, added in Cataclysm, is still intact. Take the portal and fly east.

Take the Shattrath portal from the Stormwind or Orgrimmar Portal Rooms, go to the World's End Tavern, and speak to Zefiria to reach the Caverns of Time. Requires Revered with Custodi del Tempo faction.

Paladins can get to Lights Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands by going to their Class Hall, the Sanctum of Light, from Legion Dalaran. The portals are located in Greyfang Enclave (A) and Windrunner's Sanctuary (H).

Hellfire Peninsula, Outland

Why was this portal useful? This portal wasn't that useful compared to others, as there isn't much to farm in Hellfire, but you can still reach Shattrath and Blasted Lands easily. Hellfire is close to:

There are new Mage NPCs in place of portals to the Blasted Lands. In Stormwind, talk to Mago della Rocca dell'Onore at the entrance to the Mage Tower. In Orgrimmar, talk to Mago di Thrallmar by the Shattrath portal in the Portal room. These NPCs will take you to the Blasted Lands, right by the Dark Portal.

The Blasted Lands is a short flight from Stormwind, for Alliance players.

If you are on AU Draenor, various locations will port you to Outland via the Specchio Fuoritempo for 500 Timewarped Badges.

As Hellfire is in a strange location, you may prefer traveling to other locations in Outland for old content:

Karazhan, Eastern Kingdoms

Why was this portal useful? The Karazhan portal was right next to a popular dungeon. Losing this portal is a bigger deal for Horde than Alliance, as the Alliance can easily fly from Stormwind. The Karazhan portal is close to:

Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Pandaria

Why was this portal useful? The Vale portal took players to a Pandaria zone filled with things to do. Losing this portal is inconvenient, as there aren't that many portals in central Pandaria. The Vale portal is close to:

Commenti

Commento di zugzugzuug

play the game for 14 years and you don't need portals at all :) Removed

Commento di Llok

on 2019-03-09T21:49:06-06:00

Death Knights actually can't go to Eastern Kingdoms with their Death Gate ability. Once you unlock the Broken Isles, Death Gate becomes attuned to teleporting you to Acherus' new location.

Commento di BellsCall

on 2019-03-09T21:58:29-06:00

mages are certainly going to shoot back up in popularity

Commento di CptNektarios96

on 2019-03-09T21:59:44-06:00

Death Knights actually can't go to Eastern Kingdoms with their Death Gate ability. Once you unlock the Broken Isles, Death Gate becomes attuned to teleporting you to Acherus' new location.

was gonna say this, sadly you will be ported to the broken isles, and as far as i know there is no way to change back the location of this hub. :L

Commento di Eastwood1980

on 2019-03-09T22:00:36-06:00

stonard to kara is a pretty short jaunt.

Commento di Chilela

on 2019-03-09T22:04:14-06:00

Worth noting that Druids that have unlocked Dreamwalk can reach areas close to several of the removed portals: Duskwood is near both Karazhan and Blasted Lands, Hinterlands is near the Dalaran Crater, and Grizzly Hills is near Wyrmrest Temple.

Commento di perculia

on 2019-03-09T22:04:44-06:00

Worth noting that Druids that have unlocked Dreamwalk can reach areas close to several of the removed portals: Duskwood is near both Karazhan and Blasted Lands, Hinterlands is near the Dalaran Crater, and Grizzly Hills is near Wyrmrest Temple.

Thanks, this is a great note!

Commento di Yrayl

on 2019-03-09T22:04:51-06:00

You can also talk to Zidormi in Northrend Dalaran to get to Caverns of Time. Unlike Zephyr, she isn't rep gated.

Commento di MORFOS1910

on 2019-03-09T22:11:57-06:00

play the game for 14 years and you don't need portals at all :) PS let the crybabys enter the chat now lol.

*Drinks mercury with some alcohol*Yeah, people do not work or have limited time so Blizzard can make dum... AHAM, genius-level and unnecessary changes that makes us waste more time if we plan to go to *hard-to-get-locations* that previously were made easy to access thanks to portals, even better if we plan to go with multiple adds :D . This changes were soooooooo needed, even more than many criticized problems in this new expansion. I am so smart <3 . Vote Garrosh 2020, old times better.

I hate "classic is better" people, NOT EVERYONE HAVE THAT MUCH TIME, these portals made our life easier and affected no one in a negative way. It is like "we do not need cars, we could live without them centuries ago, so can go to walk 20 kilometers to the store to then return to your home all the way carrying all you bought". I ask to anyone rational enough, how does this makes the game better? This is a downgrade, Change My Mind.jpg

Commento di selkie47

on 2019-03-09T22:13:54-06:00

going to suck for alliance come winter veil. imo, since they are going to make it more crappy, there should be a temp portal up for the season

Commento di Synth70

on 2019-03-09T22:15:38-06:00

Removed I dont want to spend my time flying everywhere when there used to be a portal to that place that took seconds. More portals needed in my opinion.

Commento di Metsunie

on 2019-03-09T22:16:36-06:00

For the Dalaran Crater, it's also possible for a Rogue to use the TP to Ravenholdt

Commento di Soeroah

on 2019-03-09T22:22:30-06:00

A lot of the issues could be resolved if Blizzard just let collectors buy or earn a Collector's Hearthstone we could use to hearth to dungeon/raid meeting stones, one at a time.

You can also talk to Zidormi in Northrend Dalaran to get to Caverns of Time. Unlike Zephyr, she isn't rep gated.

From what I heard she's being removed.

Commento di Yrayl

on 2019-03-09T22:25:09-06:00

A lot of the issues could be resolved if Blizzard just let collectors buy or earn a Collector's Hearthstone we could use to hearth to dungeon/raid meeting stones, one at a time.

You can also talk to Zidormi in Northrend Dalaran to get to Caverns of Time. Unlike Zephyr, she isn't rep gated.

From what I heard she's being removed.

Huh, she was still there on the ptr when I checked last, but that sucks if so.

Commento di deathlavitz

on 2019-03-09T22:27:47-06:00

havn't tested it on PTR but monks can go to the old location of their order hall by talking to someone, i think where the old - prelegion portal to stormwind/org was. This puts them in kun lai in the mountains.

Zen Pilgrimage, find zidormi ask to see what it looked like before the legion attacked. Where zidormi is i forget off the top of my head, but you shouldn't have too much problems finding zidormi. I think its right of where you teleport looking down the stairs (shrine behind you).

Commento di Tilra

on 2019-03-09T22:28:28-06:00

You can also talk to Zidormi in Northrend Dalaran to get to Caverns of Time. Unlike Zephyr, she isn't rep gated.

Actually, she has been removed as well. So the only way to get to CoT is taking that Uldum portal.

Commento di thorr69

on 2019-03-09T22:30:12-06:00

FYI - The Dark Portal actually functions in 8.1.5 for the first time since the 6.0 patch. It will bring you to Hellfire if you are under 90. The Honor Hold mage and Thrallmar mages actually port you to Blasted Lands (in front of the Dark Portal) and you can walk through from there.

Commento di Bwgmon

on 2019-03-09T22:31:38-06:00

To be honest, I can't help feeling a little bad for Alliance players who go to do stuff in Pandaria. Their village in Jade Forest is closer to the Timeless Isle and maaaaybe Galleon, but everything else on the continent is basically as far away as they possibly can be.

They can take the others, but I firmly believe the port to Pandara really should remain central, like how we still get Shattrath and Dalaran for BC and Wrath.

Commento di thorr69

on 2019-03-09T22:36:29-06:00

To be honest, I can't help feeling a little bad for Alliance players who go to do stuff in Pandaria. Their village in Jade Forest is closer to the Timeless Isle and maaaaybe Galleon, but everything else on the continent is basically as far away as they possibly can be.

They can take the others, but I firmly believe the port to Pandara really should remain central, like how we still get Shattrath and Dalaran for BC and Wrath.

To me, it's even worse that they changed the Legion Dalaran portal to go to Azsuna instead. That one is just downright stupid.